Hecai Town is located in the southwest corner of Shuibo, which is the west outlet of the Guangji River in Liangshanbo, surrounded by fertile land of Yima Pingchuan, but agriculture is not the main body of the people's livelihood here, and commerce is the key to its prosperity. It is located at the west end of the Guangji River, leading to Liangshanbo in the east, and the high traffic value is obvious. A hundred years after the dredging of the water transport network in the Zhao and Song dynasties, it has always been an important inland wharf town with developed water transportation and prosperous commerce, and is famous in the northwest of Shandong.

There are six ferries in the town, two horizontal and two vertical in the town, four main streets bring together hundreds of shops and inns, there are nearly 10,000 permanent residents in the town, and the floating population reaches 350,000. It's like a city.

It was also because Gao Yu came to Hecai Town with hidden traces, and the hundreds of people of all colors who accompanied him, as well as the three thousand soldiers who guarded the left and right, all found a residence in Hecai Town. In fact, the war was all together, and half of the town people in Cai Town, who had a strong business atmosphere, went to the empty building, and only countless rooms were vacant.

But that's only half the town, with all exceptions.

There are still thousands of people living in Hecai Town, and hundreds of shops and inns are opening. One of them is Liang Shanbo's eyeliner.

In the evening, the sound of drums suddenly sounded in He Cai Zhenzhong.

"Ju Jiang Drum?" Shi Qian quietly looked at the place where the drum sounded on the top of the third floor of the inn, and his heart was full of curiosity. Then Han Cunbao and Jing Zhong are both stationed outside the town, who dares to beat the drum of this gathering general? But he didn't want to, only a moment later, he saw that the fast horses on the left and right sides of the town were originally two standard cavalry, just looking at most of the people in the crowd, Shi Qian could recognize that these two people were Han Cunbao, the envoy of the Yanmen Festival in the clouds, and Jing Zhong, the envoy of the Qinghe Tianshui Festival.

and Cai Zhen around, that is, around the Guangji River, each has several Song camps, and the troops led by these two Jiedu envoys are stationed in the middle.

And there is also an official army in the town, with a strength of about 3,000, which is generally stationed at the west end of the town, and the six wharves and the four gates of the town are under their control, but the wind is not as good as the Han and Jing armies. If it is a routine thing for his generation to eat and take cards, it is common for them to rob and extort openly, and even the rumors of robbing people's girls have been reported, and it has only been a few days.

Shi Qian also visited inward twice, but he ran into a place that was really heavily guarded, and he wanted to investigate but did not dare to take risks easily. After all, the purpose of his visit to Hecai Zhen this time was not to visit this well-guarded place, but to wait for the opportunity, so as to create chaos when necessary, divert the attention of the officers and soldiers, and guide the Liangshan army to take the opportunity to land on the shore.

But how to say it now?

As soon as the drums sounded in the town, Han Cunbao and Jing Zhong came one after another, who would the people in this town be besides Gao Yu?

It was a pleasant surprise.

Gao Yu station.

Han Cunbao and Jing Zhong glanced at each other, and they both saw shock and disbelief in each other's eyes.

Yang Wen and Xiang Yuanzhen are the old brothers of the two, and Jing Zhong and Xiang Yuanzhen are close friends. When they played together in the Northwest Frontier, they both knew the skills of the old brothers. The Liangshan thieves defeated the two of them in a battle, and the result of this battle made both of them not believe their ears.

Stone cannon, stone cannon.

The battle report came from Yang Wen's hand, and the key point was the stone cannon. He blamed the cause of the defeat of the Southern Route Army on the new stone cannon in Liangshan, which made Han Cunbao and Jing Zhong instinctively not believe it. No matter how old the brothers were, they didn't dare to take the blame for Yang Xiang like this in front of Gao Yu.

Neither of them believed it, and Gao Yu could believe it, so he called a ghost.

"Taiwei, Yang Wen and Xiang Yuanzhen are generals of the imperial court and ministers of the state. Even if the war is defeated, the responsibility is heavy, and there is no reason to abandon it and not save it. The young general was willing to bring up the soldiers and horses of the headquarters and rush to Rencheng. Jing Zhong first asked for his life.

Gao Yu looked at Han Cunbao and Jing Zhong, the two generals who were defeated in the hall and asked for battle, and knew that it would be difficult to let one go.

That one doesn't make sense; The second is to hurt the hearts of the generals.

He glanced back and forth from Han Cunbao and Jing Zhong's second future, and sighed half-loudly: "General Jing is reasonable. Yang Wen and Xiang Yuanzhen have their own imperial court sanctions, but Ben Taiwei can't abandon them without saving. In this way, General Jing went to Rencheng as soon as possible. ”

Among the ten knots, the first thing Gao Yu doesn't like is Wang Huan, and the second is Xu Lao Yuan. These two veterans are also not young, but Jiang Guizhi is old and spicy, and it is really difficult to serve. And both of them are also people who are going to return to their hometowns in a few days, so they have the confidence to rely on the old and sell the old. After all, the Zhao and Song Dynasty court's benevolence to the meritorious ministers who told the old man, especially the meritorious generals, was well known.

Thinking like this, how could Gao Yu let Han Cunbao go to Rencheng, he had to send Jing Zhong. He wanted to keep Han Cunbao over Xu Lao Yuan.

And Jing Zhong's soldiers are from the northwest, and in Gao Yu's eyes, the elite of the soldiers is the first of the ten knots. After all, the Southern Route Army was beaten by thieves, no matter what the reason, defeat is defeat. At such a time, we must not underestimate the strength of the Liangshan bandits.

Gao Yu is not afraid of being ridiculed after killing chickens with knives, he is only worried that there is no knife to kill chickens.

The 10,000 elites of Jing Zhongbu were originally one of the trump cards in his hands, and he was unwilling to reveal them easily, but now he can't take care of them.

When the time moved around, I saw that when it was close to dusk and sunset, a battalion of officers and soldiers outside Cai Town suddenly rose up and pulled out the camp. He inquired among his people, and when it was dark, he was rewarded that this officer army from the northwest was going to rescue the remnants of the Southern Route Army. The latter was besieged in Rencheng.

Shi Qian laughed when he heard it, and the officers and soldiers who were so confused thought that the soldiers and horses of Liangshan were all in Rencheng, which was ridiculous. In his heart, he once again gave Lu Qian a thumbs up, this kind of trick to hide from the world and the sea made Te beautiful. It's like the battle of the Daimyo's Mansion a year ago, the sound of the east and the west. Playing with the likes of Gao Yu in the palm of his hand.

The sky had completely darkened, and Shi Qian received another carrier pigeon, but it was the army of Liangshanbo that had already arrived not far from the shore. Just wait for the time to move, so that you can take the opportunity to land in a big way.

Therefore, when the fire burned in the forage field set up in Hecai Town, the Song army camps on both sides of the Guangji River also burned into fire. It's just that the Han Cunbao camp is still good, after all, the people are encamped, there is no movement, and the military discipline is very strict. And the defenders of Hecai Town and the Jingzhong battalion are very bad.

The former had the worst military discipline, and when they encountered such an emergency, they panicked.

And the soldiers of Jingzhong's camp are pulling out the camp and setting up camp. Jing Zhong got the military order, and when he returned to the barracks, he ordered the army to rise. Tell the soldiers to pack up, and ask the people to load all the grain and grass into the trucks, and feed the cattle, horses, and livestock with grain and water. but they were to march eastward overnight. This enthusiasm for actively rescuing teammates in distress is very worthy of recognition. But it became imperfect under the fire.

You know, in the era of the Song Dynasty, it was very difficult to march at night. Under Jing Zhong's command, both the officers and soldiers, as well as the detained people, were unhappy. At such a time, a fire suddenly ignited in the tents, grain and grass, and some people took the opportunity to howl and spread rumors, and the movement became loud.

The flames lit everywhere, and Lu Qian saw from a distance that he was heading straight to the dock on twenty boats.

The so-called Cao boat, also known as the gang boat, is the ship that transports grain in the Northern Song Dynasty. round and short-shaped, flat-bottomed, slightly narrower at the end and tail, wide in the middle, with a shed on the deck; The sides of the ship are staggered with wooden planks, and the entire hull is covered with rows of nails; Mast, canopy, rudder, oar, anchor, sail, penny and rigging and other sailing equipment should be complete. The cargo capacity of such ships is quite large. The largest can carry more than 5,000 stone of grain.

All the boats in Liangshanbo were small, but even so, each ship could carry twenty oarmen and fifty heavily armed soldiers. That's what these twenty ships are loaded with right now.

The whole battalion of the guards left and right was on the ship. Lu Qian, Guo Sheng, Lu Fang and others stood at the bow of the ship, and they were the vanguard of the battle with Cai Zhen.

Since Shigou Town defeated the Southern Route Army, Lu Qianliu red-faced tiger Yuan Lang and Deng Fei led a standard of cavalry to directly replace the defeated army and then went to Rencheng, bluffing, causing Yang Wen and Xiang Yuanzhen to think that Liangshanbo's army was outside the city. In fact, he led his troops to board the ship from Shuibo, and Ruan Xiaoer and Ruan Xiaowu steered the direction to join Shuibozhong and Lin Chong's large forces at noon today. Ruan Xiaoqi and Zhang Shun, who were wounded in the fierce battle, led the remaining sailors, carried the wounded, escorted the prisoners of war, and returned to Liangshan Dazhai.

Although the water nature of the white stripes in the waves is good, it is impossible to really lie underwater for seven days and seven nights. After the people scuttled Liu Menglong's boat, when they attached it to the water, they saw Liu Menglong, who had lost his armor, transferred to a loach boat under the escort of Zhang Gongyu and his colleagues. At this time, Ruan Xiaoqi's Chijiao boat was already very close.

Zhang Shun couldn't bear to let go of such a big achievement, and he took Ruan Xiaoqi to respond, so he rushed to rob and kill. The results speak for themselves. If he escaped quickly, he had to fight to the death. Even so, he suffered three knife and arrow wounds on his body. happened to be with Ruan Xiaoqi, who was slashed in the shoulder with a knife.

The two fleets converged, and the total strength reached more than 50,000 men. It's not that this landing battle is the most familiar to Liang Shanbo, Lu Qian feels that it is possible for him to mess up.

Imagine that in the dark night, more than 50,000 soldiers, including 3,000 cavalry, landed in front of more than 20,000 enemies after a day of drifting on the water.

If the organization is not in place, there is no need for the enemy to attack, and you can create a catastrophe yourself.

After the Flying Tiger became the leader of the Transshipment Division, he joined forces with Jiang Jing, the leader of the Du Branch Division, and organized manpower and material resources to carry out logistics and transportation transfers, which was handy.

Under such a large framework, Lu Qian, Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, Yang Zhi, Xu Ning and others had more detailed references, and it took two days of deduction to finally come up with the next set of plans.

"Shoot the arrows—"

In the ship's helm building, Lu Qian, who was dressed in heavy armor, waved his hand. The rain of arrows and crossbows had already covered the officers and soldiers who were shouting a hundred meters away.

"Row, row." Guo Sheng, dressed in a snow-white robe, stood on the bow of a beach boat and shouted loudly. When the time came to fight, he personally guarded the left battalion, and he had to overpower the right battalion. Guo Sheng turned his head and glanced to his side, as if he could see a red robe, holding a halberd, standing on the bow of the boat like himself.

and the six ferries of Caizhen, naturally there are officers and soldiers guarding them. It's just that there aren't many troops left. The morale of the other generation was even more low, and when they saw that there were suddenly countless more boats on the lake, the dense torches already caused them to panic and panic, and when the arrows of the forward guards rained down, the swarm turned and ran towards the town.

When Han Cunbao returned to the camp, he summoned all the generals under his command, but he mainly sent troops to camp on the other side of the Guangji River tomorrow. As a result, as soon as the military discussion began, a fire suddenly broke out in the camp, and there was also a fire in Nahe and Cai Town, and even more in the Jing Zhong army on the other side of the river.

Han Cunbao is not a literate man who does not understand the military and is a coward. At that moment, he ordered the whole army to be on alert, investigate the spies, and if there were those who dared to stir up trouble in the camp, there would be no forgiveness for killing.

But when he found that torches, denser than the stars in the sky, suddenly appeared on the water dock close to Cai Zhen, he was horrified.

"Why are there so many thieves?"

Han had to be shocked. Just when it was right, he thought that the main force of the Liangshan Bo thieves was far away in Rencheng, besieging Yang Wen and Xiang Yuanzhen, but unexpectedly they ran in front of him now.

It can only be said that whether he is good, whether it is Jing Zhong, Gao Yu, or even Yang Wen and Xiang Yuanzhen of Rencheng, they are all like a nest of stupid and intelligent wooden chickens, and they are all played by the land thieves in Liangshan.